Free Weights Or Weightlifting Machines
To Build Bigger Muscles?

By Chris Chew

Are free weights such as dumbbells and barbells are more superior to weightlifting machines for building bigger muscles? Well, both free weights and weightlifting machines have its own pros and cons.

•Advantages of weightlifting machines

a) Excellent for beginners because it is not so intimidating and the range of motion is fixed, so a bodybuilding novice need not wonder whether he is lifting correctly to target a muscle group.

b) Easy to use as machines usually have instructions on them.

c) Safer – It won’t drop on you in a middle of a lift.

d) Isolate your muscles so that you can rest your injured body part and yet able to workout other muscle part.

•Disadvantages of Weightlifting Machines

a) Increase injury risks since the range of motion is fixed and repeated workout will place tremendous stress on the same joints, tendons and muscles because you are lifting on a fixed pathway.

b) Because of its isolation of muscles, your workout hit only the targeted muscles with little involvement of supporting or synergistic thus your muscle gains will be slower and less balanced.

c) Since weight lifting machines have fixed configuration, your workout does not factor in your body frame and structure. Whether you have a big or small built, narrow or wide shoulders, you will be using the same pathway range of motion and width of grip. This will raise your chances of being injured as well as poorer muscle development.

•Advantages of free weights

a) More stabilizing muscles synergistic muscles are involved. So you are actually exercising more muscles and therefore will develop more muscle growth and strength.

b) Improve your balance and muscle coordination since you need to balance the weights during your lift and this call on many muscles to do so. So your muscle coordination and sense of balance will naturally improve.

c) Convenient and inexpensive since you need not join a gym and free weights are much less expensive than machines.

•Disadvantages of free weights

a) Increase injury risks if lifting with wrong form and technique.

b) Time consuming because you need to bring the weights from one area to another or physically taking time to adjust, add or decrease weights.

So which is better for building bigger and well balanced muscles? Yup, free weight takes the cake over weight lifting machines for building muscles faster and bigger. However, since both weightlifting machines and free weights have its own advantages and disadvantages, you can then weigh the pros and cons to use machines or free weights for your workouts or even a combination of both to suit your personal requirements.

About The Author:

Chris Chew is a fitness personal trainer of actors, fashion models and male pageant title holders. More of his articles at his sites www.sgfitness.com and www.sgfitnessonline.com

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by Varun Pratap

If you Really, really want to lose weight, You'll need to do these 2 steps. Most people only follow 1 of these. If you are frustrated with Your Weight loss efforts then I can Assure you, if You read this article, You'll feel why results are not what you were expecting.

Lets start with overview of How you can lose weight. You should know the basic formula of losing weight. It's Diet + Exercise. Right... But this is only Half of the story. I am also surprised how most experts forgets about the other half of this puzzle. I infact haven’t found anyone else preaching what I am about to tell you.

Diets and exercise is necessary to lose weight. You might have read lots of article how You need to boost your metabolism to lose weight. In fact It is the truth. You should always design the Routine format which elevates your Metabolism even when you are not working out.

So Lets get on with Top 2 Ways.

1. Exercise : With a Twist. This is a no brainer thing, you know it, right? It doesn't matter what kind of diet you follow or How motivated are you, If you really want to put your weight loss efforts into overdrive. You need to Exercise. Exercise will elevate your metabolism and Help you lose weight faster.

But here is the kicker. You are still doing exercises the wrong way. Even I used to preach cardio + strength training methods to lose weight. And they Do work. But When I found much better methods I was astounded by the results I was getting with my clients. This method is very common in Martial arts circle.

It is like jacked up, High Power HIIT(high intensity Interval training). This method is very simple Yet difficult to do. Let me give you overview of this method. You'll only workout 20 seconds and then 10 seconds rest. and Repeat this for eight times. You'll be done within 5 minutes.

If you think this is easy, Please try it. I suggest you try it with Skipping. You'll be amazed how this 4 minute routine can do for you. After just 6 weeks of testing, a 28% increase in anaerobic capacity along with a 14% increase in V02Max is found in trainees.

If you are still not excited about this method which can be done in 4 minutes. Then I guess No one can help you lose weight. This method is not only saving you time, but also will increase your overall fitness and Lose weight.

Anyways lets go over to Next Tip.

2. Cleanse : If your goal is to look young, feel vibrant and energetic, then this is the way to go. This is not exactly a secret for common man. If you are not following a cleanse method with Exercise and good nutrition, You are setting up yourself for bad results. Seriously whenever I have introduced Cleanse methods in my clients routine, Their results almost doubled with the same amount of efforts.

But the kind of cleanse methods which are popular, they expect you to follow certain plans for 28 or more days. These methods doesn't gell with our exercise routines and Proper Diet. If you are active with my exercises methods, then You might feel lethargic and tired while following cleansing diets.

So I always advice to do cleanse on daily basis for the rest of your life. Can You guess how much time it takes? About 5 minutes... That's it. Its not only easy to follow, but also result oriented. You'll notice the difference by just following my cleanse method.

But the thing is Its so much hyped by experts that people try NOT to do. There are methods and diets which'll help you cleanse in like 30 days or so... It's All well and good but What will do after the cleanse?

Do you again let your body build up waste matter and toxins? That's Why I am asking you to do cleaning on daily basis. There are 2 basic methods that I teach. One is 3 day cleanse which eliminates most of toxins from your body. Second is Everyday Cleanse, This method helps you get rid of all the waste matter on everyday basis.

Both of these methods have their roots in Yoga and Ayurveda. If you are not experienced in Yoga or Ayurveda You might have not heard about these powerful methods of cleaning your body.

How to do cleanse method on daily basis.. I am going to give you very simple method even simpler than I described in my report. Here's What to do.

The moment You wake up in the morning, Drink 2 glasses of Luke warm water. Then walk for 500 steps while breathing deeply into your Diaphragm. That's it. In less than 5 minutes You'll feel bowel movements.

In my Free report I am expanding on both Cleansing methods.I suggest you to use these two tips from Today onwards and See the difference Yourself.

About The Author:

Varun Pratap is Author of Free Report on " Cleansing Methods and 10 minutes Powerful Workout". Drop by and Get your Free Report at www.10minutesonly.com Lose More Weight in Next 30 days than You could in a Year.

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